New Jersey Governor Submits Bill To Pull New Jersey Public TV Funding
New Jersey governor Chris Christie submitted legislation yesterday designed to end forty years of public television funding in the state, the Star-Ledger reports.
The governor’s plan would have the state treasurer take stock of the network’s assets and sell or transfer them to an existing public broadcasting outlet.
This is on top of New Jersey’s 2011 budget, passed in June, which cut $13 million of state funding.
Dudley Burdge, spokesman for the Communications Workers of America, the union representing most of NJN’s staff, told the Star-Ledger that the plan was “completely unrealistic.”
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